I'm fine with the change, it just needs to be explained or transitioned properly. in Infamous 1 he was a pretty average character, no different than a Nathan Hale. He was a typical bald guy with a scruffy voice, and I feel SP wanted to add more personality to him. Whether that's a good thing or bad thing remains to be seen.

I believe they are just trying to make the character more presentable, look at Nathan Drake, there is a guy you can love, he has character. I like to think guys like SP and GG are evolving their characters for the better, and I'd like to think Uncharted played some sort of role.

Change can be good, but based on the explanation, this seems like change to maximise 'market share', and anything that's too 'street and self-consciously'target group led ends up sucking a whole heap of dogs ass. Hopefully they can 'update' the image, whilst maintaining or developing the characters' core identity. (Fingers crossed, 'cause I loved the first game.)

This is dumb. I figured the new redesign was some type of new character. I wouldn't mind a new main character but to say that he is Cole ruined a lot of it for me.

Why do people wish for these "pretty boys". They say dark and gritty but I see weak and coward. Cole looked a lot more raw and dark then this character for sure. These Tom Cruise wannabes should stop. Btw, in case its not obvious I hate Tom Cruise.

i guarantee this will not go over well, first of all, we know Cole as a average delivery guy given powers, not a skateboarding/extreme sports star. Sucker punch you just sunk to a new low to cater to the masses of people who didn't play your game and middle fingered the people who played Infamous and loved the story.

im not minding the updated look, just not the character characteristic change from an average person to an extreme sports star, like cmon, Cole was not that before, just a regular delivery person, it would be like watching spiderman 1 with Tobey Maquire, then spiderman 2 with Christian Bale as spiderman/parker. Its just wouldn't match the character of spiderman in general.

Yes, Alan Wake's animations are also laughable. Probably a close second after Cole.

And it's not really about fluidity or not. It's about the fact that Cole moves and runs like a complete retard. His stances are also very disturbing. I really can't understand what the hell the team responsible for the animations were thinking?!

Cole's model and animations are some of the best to date, he seamlessly moves from position to position, like jumping off the building into a human bomb then two, three, four? kicks/ punches into a a dozen balls of lightning, hell throw some jumps back flips and rolls in there to for good measure, Yep seamless.

I would like them to improve game image quality introducing MLAA and using higher res in-game models. Animations dont concern me because they look funny, it's like the game isn't taking itself too seriously.

Infamous for me was the best game on the ps3. Looking forward to the sequel but to change the main character to be a more extreme sports or similar to nathan drake? Please no. I mean who actually likes those people? Uncharted was a Good game spoiled by a wee cocky shit head of a main character."woo yeah rock on" seriously!? Does anyone actually talknlike that? And if they do, do they know that they are a gimp?

The one complaint I remember about the old Cole, and tons of people in reviews complained about it, was his voice. I personally had no issue with it, but look at a lot of the old reviews and more than half of them made fun of it.

Though, if you played the whole game, you would see that 'change' really isn't an issue for continuity. Just depends on the type of change. I do expect him to let go of his old job of being a courier in the upcoming games, though, when it comes to his choice in wardrobe.

Nah, nah, nah , nah. Nah. I'm fine with devs doing what they like-it's their plaything for gods sake but, tbh, that's because I don't assume I'll like every game I play yet when someone has bothered with what was a decent story(for the most part) in the first gamew I feel they're missing a trick by changing someone their core audience already relates to or understands. Cole's also meant to be a bit of an everyman. Y'know, he wasn't a big star of any kind, had few pretensions and the fact his parkour skills were put down more to him having them more as part of his job rather than being some extreme show off made him easier for most people to understand.

Maybe I have an issue with the word "extreme" as whenever I hear it all I see is Bam Effin Margera and his inbred family of walrus men. Christ, that guy makes me so ashamed to be a former skater that these days I wouldn't dream of admitting it and only even play Skate in the wee small hours where my kids can't tell. Anyway, point is I fear this is a lot of marketing led BS rather than something that fits an EXISTING character. I mean they seem to want to make him a bit more approachable and lighthearted but he's been thrust into this nonsense and seen a host of people he knows(and more he didn't)die horrible deaths. Christ, his GF died and he knows an even bigger evil is on the way! What in the world has he got to be more chipper about? It just seems like a bad design choice to me-simple as that.

I suppose, for gamers, it'll boil down to whether you liked the original game and the first design for Cole as to how you see this new one-if you liked him you might well need, like me, some convincing beyond what sounds like shallow market share seeking mouth grease. Idon't seethe need for the direction, I don't see any sense at all in the direction and why do they think more of us will relate to someone who was into the danger(and was EXTREME) beforehand? The whole hook was that he didn't choose this and people were suspicious of him on top of his confusion-he needed a dark edge and I fail to see how he would possibly have cheered up a great deal following the events and reveal in the first game.

So, yeah, it's up to them and all but I really question the wisdom of how and especially why(I suspect) they're doing this. Doesn't anyone remember the gruesome Emo BS we suffered when PoP tried to get some cred? Well, this is a similar worry and one that had alarms in my mind ringing as soon as the two words "street" and "extreme" were used. When I noticed "extreme sports star" I really started worrying as Ijust don't believe many game devs are "street",would know it if it bit their arse and find it even more mindblowing that they don't realise anyone who they might regard as "street" would never be heard dead using the word in the way they just have! Let alone thinking they could understand anything "extreme"!

Whatever, I stand here ready to be proved wrong and, hey, we can't love everything we play but I've just started really thinking they may be messing this right up. I'm all for change IF it's needed and if it's good but this just doesn't make a great deal, if it makes any, sense at all to me. I just hope that I'm wrong or they decide to change tack again.Also, I think the new Cole looks bloody cheesy.

The old Cole looked more badåss... I'd rather a grumpy badåss than a snarky douche. Hopefully they pull it off though, it's too good a series to fück up the main character. But where do they come up with Tony Hawk as an example of some one gritty, or street. The guy is a rich, skinny little white boy... not that there's anything wrong with that per se, but...

Please, don't turn Cole into a wise cracking, high fiving skater boy with a ton of lame one liners. Keep the character dark and somewhat quiet, the kinda guy you wouldn't wanna fück with.

What if this isn't the old Cole. Maybe it's the older Cole, Kessler. The best way for this to work, imo, is to give us that Cole for a prequel-esque game to flesh out that alternate universe.Then end it setting us up so that both Coles, not Cole and Kessler, find themselves in the same universe and ready to fight that evil person that killed Kessler's family together in a third game to finish off a trilogy. That way you piss nobody off and you're set up for what would be a pretty kickass game. /end wishful thinking

Are they serious? If he looks like this I'm not even buying it. Everybody is trying to tip off of UNCHARTED's sucess.

It didn't succeed because the main character was a wuss with balls that would only drop in certain situations. It succeeded because it was original and different. I don't want no ghetto ass rapping, raping, sports shit. They're probably aiming it towards kids now.

they never said he is a extreme sports star. They only compared him to those guys in terms of the stuff he is capable of since he could climb like that before he got his powers. He still is the cole that delivered packages for a living

I was a huge fan of Cole and don't think they needed to change him. It's one thing to change the look, but don't change the personality. So what's next completely redo the gameplay, through out the old story. Now i'm not sure if Infamous 2 will be as good as one.

The ending of Infamous 1 was so cool...it set itself up for a sequal..and now it looks like their changing all that.still,Im looking foward to it.Infamous1 was a great game.reminded me of the enjoyable ps2 spiderman games gameplay wise

I enjoy them both. I felt that the original Cole was more of an everyday guy but now considering his unique powers maybe he can't help but change as a person both emotionally and physically(but a different voice actor?).

Crackdown didn't have much of a story but there was one and the deception of The Agency is an interesting one. I won't go into spoiler details..

However leveling up vehicles, variety of weapons, multiplayer and 2 player co-op make Crackdown a better game for me and while I was playing Infamous I couldn't help but think of Crackdown at times.

Not a diss on the game because like I said I love them both and no matter the changes to Cole here I will be getting it day one, same with Crackdown 2.

Not really, how much have you seen of this game to make you not like it, other than this one picture? SP knows what they're doing plus they said when INFAMOUS came out they seen what Naughty dog did with mo-cap and they wanted to do that. So this is probably the result.

That just sounds like a way to make Extreme Sports Stars more douchey than they already are. Either way, I really enjoyed the first game and I'm still really anticipating this. I cant wait for gameplay.

I just hope they change his irritating 'hey girls, I'm a total gruff voiced macho badass' voice for this one. All the way through the first game I was expecting any other character to stop him mid sentence and ask, 'What the hell is with that voice?? There aren't even any chicks around man, just speak in your regular voice and stop trying to impress me with what a badass 80's anti-hero you sound like'.

You must have a high pitched voice and sound like a girl. Cole sounded like a regular gritty and scruffy guy. He was electrocuted and had 50,000 volts going through his body all the time...how was he supposed to sound...like Nathan Drake? He was a tough guy you retard and his voice reflected that. You don't give him a pretty boy soft voice. Who would you rather be the voice of Duke Nukem, Nolan North or Lance Henrickson?

Imagine what Snake would have sounded like w/o David Hayter. What if he was voiced by Zac Efron? Stick to flipping burgers and let the game designers do what they do best.